Prejudice, discrimination, stigma and health
Author/editor: Paradies, Y, Bastos, JL & Priest, N.
Year published: 2016
Profiling the mobile-only population in Australia: insights from the Australian National Health Survey
Author/editor: Baffour, B, Haynes, M, Dinsdale, S, et al.
Year published: 2016
BACKGROUND: The Australian population that relies on mobile phones exclusively has increased from 5% in 2005 to 29% in 2014. Failing to include this mobile-only population leads to a potential bias in estimates from landline-based telephone surveys. This paper considers the impacts on selected…
Seven years of evaluating income management – what have we learnt? Placing the findings of the New Income Management in the Northern Territory evaluation in context
Author/editor: Bray, J.R.
Year published: 2016
Income management programs - which restrict how some recipients of government transfers can spend these funds - have operated in Australia since 2007. The nature of the programs implemented varies, especially in regard to the combination of voluntary and compulsory elements, and there are also…
Shared-time parenting: Evaluating the evidence of risks and benefits to children
Author/editor: Smyth, B, McIntosh, J, Emery, R et al
Year published: 2016
In many Western countries, shared-time parenting after separation is emerging as a new family form. This development has been accompanied by an intensification of research into risks and benefits for children.
Social worker assessed vulnerable income management
Author/editor: Bray, JR, Gray, M, Hand, K & Katz, I.
Year published: 2016
Despite the small size of the sub program, Social Worker Assessed Vulnerable Welfare Payment Recipients Income Management is often cited as a preferred approach to this type of initiative, being tightly targeted at a group of people with identified high needs, and demonstrated poor outcomes.…
Tax and Equity
Year published: 2016
Tax and Equity in Australia: What Australians Want—the 21st ANUpoll in the series—asks Australians what they think about these issues in the Australian context. Should we be worried about governments holding debt? Which areas of spending should have priority, and which can be cut? Should we pay…
The concordance of self-reported and officially recorded lifetime offending histories: Results from a sample of Australian prisoners
Author/editor: Payne, JL & Piquero, AR.
Year published: 2016
PurposeThis study examines the concordance of self-reported and officially recorded lifetime offending (prevalence and frequency) for seven offense types among a sample of prisoners in Queensland, Australia.MethodsPrevalence estimates, kappa coefficients and odds ratios are calculated as measures…